Plog Number 128
Dr. Bernice King
Hello Ploggers, how are you doing! I am wishing you all warmth and wellness. According to Al Roker we are experiencing and Arctic ❄️ Blast. I noticed that the car thermostat said 15 degrees. But as the weather is variable, I also heard that it is supposed to be 50 degrees in a few days. I will be glad to see that.
Last night my daughter and I went to see Dr. Bernice King at Kent State University. She is the youngest daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King. She looks just like her Mother Coretta Scott King. She and the moderator sat on two lounging comfy looking 💺 chairs facing each other and they dialoged in front of us. Dr. King answered questions both thoughtfully and honestly. I so enjoyed being in her company for an evening. She is very relatable and human. She said that she was only 5 when her father was assassinated, so she has very little memory of him. That is sad and logical. She mostly shares anecdotes from and about her mother. That is also to be expected.
She said that her mother taught them to be agents of non-violent change. This she found challenging as a young woman who had passion and sometimes wanted to fight in her younger days. She refers to this as prior to the maturing of her pre-frontal cortex at age 26 ish. As a Psych major I am sure she has studied the brain development extensively. She is funny and intelligent and I love that she tours, especially during Black History Month. I had questions in my mind that I would have loved to ask her, but the event was not set up in that way. I would have asked her what her family dynamic is like as the daughter of an Icon. What kinds of things did her mother tell her about her father? And what expectations were put on her because of who her parents were?
There is so much I could write about Dr. King but one more thing I will say is something that surprised me. She said that her father predicted the advances in technology and warned about “AI” Artificial Intelligence. She said that her dad predicted that our morality could be overcome by a.i. if we were not careful. “Our moral and ethical selves must be ahead of robots”. That from a man who died in 1968 when there was no hint of the widespread internet we have today. He was so right. By the way, I took notes the whole time on my☎️ phone. I am thrilled to have spent an evening with this excellent 💛 black woman. RECLAIM!
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